Our Team
Host: Amanda Tattersall
Amanda Tattersall co-founded GetUp.org.au, Australia’s most successful digital advocacy organisation with over 1 million members. She also founded and ran the Sydney Alliance for 9 years, having brought Saul Alinsky style community organising (IAF) to Australia.
She wrote the globally focused “go to” book on coalition strategy (Power in Coalition), People Power in Cities (with Kurt Iveson, released May 2026), and Conscious Tribes: thinking differently about making a difference (releasing in August 2026).
She has been involved in a wide variety of social movements – student, union, peace, and refugee movements movement. She advises the Australian climate movement on their grassroots strategy and has completed a PhD and Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Sydney exploring social change strategy
She is currently an Associate Professor of Practice in Urban Geography and a specialist in community-led research methods. She is the Academic Chair of the Real Deal for Australia project on community-led climate transition, works with Citizens UK and is a Policy Fellow with the Australian Institute for Public Policy.
Amanda started the ChangeMakers Podcast to create a space where we could more easily learn from each other and share our emerging successes.
She can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Linked In and Bluesky. Learn about Amanda’s multi-faceted career in social change movements in a ChangeMaker chat with her here, and in this more reflective speech here. See also https://amandatattersall.com
Co-Host ChangeMakers Digest: Samuel Chu
Samuel Chu is a community organizer whose work explores democracy, collective action, and public life. He is the founder of The Campaign for Hong Kong and Democracy in Flight. Over the past two decades, he has organized campaigns on civil rights, food security, economic justice, and democracy while training thousands of organizers and pro-democracy activists around the world. He helped advance landmark U.S. policies, including the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials for human rights violations.
In 2020, Hong Kong authorities issued an arrest warrant for Chu under the city’s sweeping National Security Law, making him the first foreign citizen targeted under the legislation. A first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong to the United States, he is the son of Rev. Chu Yiu Ming, co-founder of Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement.
Chu serves as a founding board member of the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation in Berlin, a special advisor to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and a trainer with Midwest Academy. In 2025, he received the Decoration of Solidarity and Human Rights from the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Poland. See also www.samuelmchu.com/.
Audio Producer: Jules Wucherer
Jules is a Sydney Based Sound Engineer with a passion for all things audio.
In 2018 he was nominated for an ASSG award for his work on the ABC/Netflix series ‘The Letdown.’ In 2019 Jules teamed up with Composer Dylan Frost to compose the score for the award winning surf film ‘A Corner Of The Earth.’Having worked at some of Sydney’s top recording studios as a sound engineer for film, television and broadcast audio Jules has gained experience working across a range of content for networks such as Netflix, Stan, Foxtel, Nat Geo, ABC, SBS and Channel Ten. He has worked with ChangeMakers since 2017.
Our writing team has featured Charles Firth (Chaser, Wankernomics), Mark Isaacs, David Hunt (author of the Australian history satires Girt and True Girt), and Amy Fairall.
Get In touch
To get in touch with our team about podcast or media enquiries, please email [email protected].